Toy car



. c. E. KlLGouR TOY CAR Fi1ed.Feb. 21, 1921 fiTTORNEY Patented Mar. 13, 1923.

UNITED STATS PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. KILGOU-R, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TOPOWEL CROSLEY, JR.,

CINCINNATI, OHIO. t

TOY can.

Application filed February 21 1921. Serial No. 446,643.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1., CHARLES E. Kiroonn, a citizen of the United States, residing in Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to toy cars for children, and its objects are to provide a car of simple and economicalconstruction which is readily adapted to be adjusted to varying heights and positions to adapt it to continued use of a child as it becomes larger or for use by children of different sizes; to adjust the car as desired so that the seat will be disposed at an angle to the surface over which the car travels, to prevent accidental overturning backwards, and to so construct the car that it may be folded compactly for shipment or storage.

My invention consists in providing adjustable means both at the front and the rear thereof, for elevating or lowering either or both ends of the seat member. My invention also consists in the details of construction and inv the parts and combination and arrangement of parts as herein set forth and claimed.

In thedrawings:

Fig. lis a front elevation;

Fig. 2 a side elevation;

Fig. 3 a rear elevation;

Fig. 4 a longitudinal vertical section;

Fig. a side elevation;

Fig. 6a bottom view;

Fig. 7 a. view showing the front end only in elevated position;

Fig. 8 a plan View; and v Fig. 9 a side view showing the parts in folded position.

In the embodiment of my invention as illustrated and which shows a preferred construction, seat 1 is provided with neck 2 having a hole 3 extending vertically therethrough near its front end. A reinforcing bearing disk 4: having a hole 3' therein adapted to register with hole 3 is secured under the forward end of said neck and said hole is adapted to receive the steering post 5 having handle bar 6 upon its upper end and retaining collar 7 fixed thereon near its center and having its lower end project therethrough into socket 8 in the upper end of yoke aXle-bearing9 in which the front rear wheels 28 or othertread' members wheel 10 or other tread member is rotatab-ly supported upon axle 11. The steering post is held in said socket by means of set-screw 12. Adjusting spacing sleeves'18' and 14 are loosely mounted upon the steering post either above r below or one above and one below neck 2 as shown in Figs. 1, 2,4,5, and 7 respectively, Figs. 1 and 2*showing said sleeves below, Fig. 5 showing them above, Fig. 7 below, and Fig. 4: sho-wing one above and ne-below said neck. Reinforcing and bearing bars 15 and 16 respectively are secured tothe under side of seat 1 near its side edges and are provided with bearings 17 at their front end to receive pin 18 on which the forward endof slotted axle reach 19 is pivotally mounted and at their rear ends with bearings 20 supporting pin-21 on which adjusting bar 22'is pivotally mounted. Adjusting bar 22 extends downwardly through slot 23in reach 19,-andis provided with a series of holes 24 respectively, to form bearings to receive pin 25 extending transversel'y through reach 19 and slot 23,said pin being removably mounted. Reach 19 is provided with lateral-extensions 26 having rear axles 27 mounted therein, upon which are suitably mounted; V

Thus. a will beseen that both forward andrearward adjustments of the height of seat 1 may be made or adjustment of the heights of either ends, either upwardly or downwardly, may be made to regulate the height of the seat or the angle of the seat relative to the surface over which the car travels, as shown in the several views, thereby adapting a single car for use of children varying in ages from one to nine or ten years.

The car as thus constructed is also,

as shown in Fig. 7 Where the spacing sleeves 13 and 14 are placed below bearing disk i to elevate the front end of seat 1, and the pin 25 is inserted in upper hole 24: of adjusting bar 22 to lower the rear endof the seat so that the seat will remain substantially level while going down grade.

The adjusting bar is short, and a small movement of the reach relative to the adjusting bar will cause a relatively large change in the heighth of the seat. It will also be seen that in all positions the rear wheels are located to the rear of the seat, so that the car is safe from overturning backwards.

This construction permits of very compact folding of the car into small space for storage or shipment as shown .in Fig. 9.

I do not desire to be limited to the precise details and arrangement herein set forth as various modifications will occur to those skilledin the art.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a toy car, a seat, means for adjustably supporting the front end thereof, a reach pivotally attached to said seat near its center, rear wheels mounted on said reach, a supporting and adjusting bar pivotally attached to said seat to the rear of the point of attachment of said reach to said seat, and means for adjustably connecting said supporting and adjusting bar to said reach between its ends, substantially as set forth and for the purposes specified.

2. In a toy car, a seat, means for adjustably supporting the front part thereof, bearings near the center of said seat, a reach pivotally mounted in said bearings at its upper end, rear wheels mounted on said reach, an adjusting and supporting bar pivotally attached to said seat near its rear end and having a plurality of bearings, and means for attaching said adjusting bar to said reach in any of said bearings to regulate the heighthof said seat at its rear end, substantially as set forth and for the purposes specified. v 3. In a toy car, a seat, a steering post rotatably mounted therein, an axle yoke detachably connected to said steering post, a wheel rotatably mounted in said axle yoke,

.seat near its rear end and having a plurality of bearings, and means for attaching said adjusting bar to the bearings of said reach within said slot in any of said plurality of bearings to regulate the heighth of the seat at its rear end, substantially as set forth and for the purposes specified.

t. In a toy car, a seat having a neck provided with a hole in the front end thereof,

a reinforcing disk secured to said nee and having ahole therethrough coinciding with the hole in said'neck, a steering post having a handle at its top and a fixed collar thereon near its center, an axle yoke having a socket therein adapted to receive the lower end of said steering post, a set screw adapted to hold said yoke upon said steering post, a wheel mounted in said axle yoke, bearing bars mounted on the upper side of said seat and spaced apart from each other, an axle reach pivotally mounted at its upper endto the forwardtend of said bearing bars, an adjusting bar having a plurality of adjusting bearings, means for detachably connecting said axle reach to said adjusting bar in any of its bearings and means for mounting wheels upon said axle reach, substantially as set forth and for the purposes specified.

CHARLES E. KILGOUR. 

